Mailbox Monday and What Are You Reading?

Mailbox Monday

Mailbox Monday was created by The Printed Page. It is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their home last week.

Mailbox Monday is currently on tour, hosted by a different blog each month. The March host is Caitlin @ chaotic compendiums.

Last week was a slow reading week but a good week for the mailbox.

From the publicist for review:

The Apple Orchardby Susan Wiggs

Tess Delaney makes a living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners. People like Annelise Winther, who refuses to sell her long-gone mother’s beloved necklace-despite Tess’s advice. To Annelise, the jewel’s value is in its memories. But Tess’s own history is filled with gaps: a father she never met, a mother who spent more time traveling than with her daughter. So Tess is shocked when she discovers the grandfather she never knew is in a coma. And that she has been named in his will to inherit half of Bella Vista, a hundred-acre apple orchard in the magical Sonoma town called Archangel.

For review from AmazonVine:

Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bellby Phil Lapsley

Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world’s largest machine: the telephone system. Exploding the Phone tells this story in full for the first time. It traces the birth of long-distance communication and the telephone, the rise of AT&T’s monopoly, the creation of the sophisticated machines that made it all work, and the discovery of Ma Bell’s Achilles’ heel. more

From the author for review (ebook):

The Knightmareby Deborah Valentine

Historical time travel fantasy…
France, 1209: A Knight Templar riding through an eerie forest is suddenly attacked by an assassin as a man and woman watch from a distant hillside. When his death seems certain, the woman takes up a sword… Present, Formula 1 race, Magny Cours: Observed by the very same couple, Conor Westfield, a career-obsessed Scottish driver, is in a horrible racing accident. Miraculously, he survives what seemed to be certain death…more On 3/11 and 3/14 there will be a free promotion for the Kindle ebook.

Two audiobooks for review from Penguin Audio:

How to Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asiaby Mohsin Hamid
the astonishing and riveting tale of a man’s journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, it steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by ambitious youths all over “rising Asia.” It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on that most fluid, and increasingly scarce, of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else, on the pretty girl whose star rises along with his…

Written In Redby Anne Bishop

As a cassandra sangue, or blood prophet, Meg Corbyn can see the future when her skin is cut—a gift that feels more like a curse. Meg’s Controller keeps her enslaved so he can have full access to her visions. But when she escapes, the only safe place Meg can hide is at the Lakeside Courtyard—a business district operated by the Others.

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey.

Share what you read last week and what you are currently reading.

Last week

It was a slow reading week for fiction as I spent a good amount of time with a pile of library books offering a wide range of advice on how to update my resume for today’s job market. Oddly enough the most helpful was the insultingly titled, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Perfect Resume.

How does one begin to become a bird watcher? I’m so impressed with your weekend birding. I’m anxious to know what you think of the Kate Atkinson book, and love the cover of the Apple Orchard one, would you love to serve Sunday supper out in the orchard like that. I may be planting a tree soon. Happy Reading.

I’ve always been fascinated with birds and had bird baths and feeders in my yard. But you need to get out to the forest preserves to really see birds. I saw a notice in the ‘weekend activities’ of my local newspaper for a birdwalk, and I just showed up. The people were wonderful, I joined the bird club and the rest is history.

I’m half way through Life After Life … yes, it’s good and original in a difficult to describe way. I love books like that!

I followed the Complete Idiot advice and have already received two responses. That’s two more than I received since the start of this year so their advice isn’t too bad! Catchy title I suppose but I give the book 5 stars.